Landing List
Modes
Levels of detail in the response - list, normal, detailed
Example - /landings/?mode=list
Filters
Parameters - attempt, firststage_launch__ids, landing_location__ids, landing_type__ids, launcher__ids, launcher_config__ids, launcher_serial_numbers, spacecraft__ids, spacecraft_config__ids, spacecraft_launch__ids, success
Example - /landings/?spacecraft__ids=39,37
Search
Fields searched - firststage__launcher__launcher_config__name, firststage__launcher__serial_number, firststage__rocket__launch__name, landing_location__abbrev, landing_location__name, spacecraftflight__rocket__launch__name, spacecraftflight__spacecraft__name, spacecraftflight__spacecraft__serial_number, spacecraftflight__spacecraft__spacecraft_config__name
Example - /landings/?search=B1059
Ordering
Fields - downrange_distance, id
Example - /landings/?ordering=downrange_distance
Number of results
Use limit to control the number of objects in the response (max 100)
Example - /landings/?limit=2
Format
Switch to JSON output - /landings/?format=json
Help
Find all the FAQs and support links on the documentation homepage - ll.thespacedevs.com/docs
GET /2.3.0/landings/?format=api&offset=440&ordering=-downrange_distance
{ "count": 1497, "next": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/landings/?format=api&limit=10&offset=450&ordering=-downrange_distance", "previous": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/landings/?format=api&limit=10&offset=430&ordering=-downrange_distance", "results": [ { "id": 476, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/landings/476/?format=api", "attempt": false, "success": null, "description": "The Kounotori spacecraft burned up as planned upon entering Earth's atmosphere.", "downrange_distance": null, "landing_location": null, "type": { "id": 7, "name": "Destructive Reentry", "abbrev": "ATM", "description": "Spacecraft burned up in the atmosphere" }, "response_mode": "normal", "firststage": null, "spacecraftflight": { "id": 270, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft_flights/270/?format=api", "destination": "International Space Station", "mission_end": "2017-02-05T15:06:00Z", "spacecraft": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 176, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft/176/?format=api", "name": "Kounotori 6", "serial_number": "HTV-6", "is_placeholder": false, "image": { "id": 1082, "name": "HTV-4 captured by Canadarm2", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/htv-4_captured__image_20240325122159.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/htv-4_captured__image_thumbnail_20240325122159.jpeg", "credit": "JAXA/NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": false, "variants": [] }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P58DT1H39M13S", "time_docked": "P44DT21H2M", "flights_count": 1, "mission_ends_count": 1, "status": { "id": 4, "name": "Single Use" }, "description": "Kounotori 6, also known as HTV-6, is the sixth flight of the H-II Transfer Vehicle, an unmanned cargo spacecraft launched to resupply the International Space Station. It was launched at 13:26:47 UTC on 9 December 2016 aboard H-IIB launch vehicle from Tanegashima Space Center.", "spacecraft_config": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 18, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft_configurations/18/?format=api", "name": "H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV)", "type": { "id": 4, "name": "Cargo Resupply" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 37, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/37/?format=api", "name": "Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency", "abbrev": "JAXA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "family": [ { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 4, "name": "HTV", "description": "The H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV), also called Kounotori, is an expendable, automated cargo spacecraft used to resupply the International Space Station", "manufacturer": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 37, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/37/?format=api", "name": "Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency", "abbrev": "JAXA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "parent": null, "maiden_flight": "2009-09-10" } ], "in_use": false, "image": { "id": 1082, "name": "HTV-4 captured by Canadarm2", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/htv-4_captured__image_20240325122159.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/htv-4_captured__image_thumbnail_20240325122159.jpeg", "credit": "JAXA/NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": false, "variants": [] } }, "fastest_turnaround": null }, "launch": { "id": "8c03f757-0e93-46b8-8c50-b23d6e8c3469", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launches/8c03f757-0e93-46b8-8c50-b23d6e8c3469/?format=api", "name": "H-IIB 304 | Kounotori 6 (HTV-6)", "response_mode": "normal", "slug": "h-iib-304-kounotori-6-htv-6", "launch_designator": "2016-076", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2023-07-07T12:51:18Z", "net": "2016-12-09T13:26:47Z", "net_precision": null, "window_end": "2016-12-09T14:00:00Z", "window_start": "2016-12-09T13:00:00Z", "image": { "id": 1751, "name": "H-IIB 304 liftoff from LP-2 (HTV-3)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/h-iib_304_lifto_image_20240325125154.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/h-iib_304_lifto_image_thumbnail_20240325125154.jpeg", "credit": "JAXA", "license": { "id": 9, "name": "JAXA Image Usage Policy", "priority": 8, "link": "https://global.jaxa.jp/policy.html" }, "single_use": false, "variants": [] }, "infographic": null, "probability": -1, "weather_concerns": null, "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 98, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/98/?format=api", "name": "Mitsubishi Heavy Industries", "abbrev": "MHI", "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Commercial" } }, "rocket": { "id": 1971, "configuration": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 77, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launcher_configurations/77/?format=api", "name": "H-IIB", "families": [ { "response_mode": "list", "id": 88, "name": "H-II" } ], "full_name": "H-IIB 304", "variant": "304" } }, "mission": { "id": 220, "name": "Kounotori 6 (HTV-6)", "type": "Resupply", "description": "This is the sixth flight of an uncrewed cargo spacecraft to International Space Station. It will bring the replacement for the batteries used on the Station to store electricity generated by solar panels, as well as 600 liters of potable water.", "image": null, "orbit": { "id": 8, "name": "Low Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "LEO", "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 1, "name": "Earth" } }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 209, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/pads/209/?format=api", "active": true, "agencies": [ { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 37, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/37/?format=api", "name": "Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency", "abbrev": "JAXA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" }, "featured": true, "country": [ { "id": 28, "name": "Japan", "alpha_2_code": "JP", "alpha_3_code": "JPN", "nationality_name": "Japanese", "nationality_name_composed": "Nippo" } ], "description": "The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is Japan's national aero-space agency. Through the merger of three previously independent organizations, JAXA was formed on 1 October 2003. JAXA is responsible for research, technology development and the launch of satellites into orbit, and is involved in many more advanced missions, such as asteroid exploration and possible manned exploration of the Moon. JAXA launch their Epsilon vehicle from the Uchinoura Space Center and their H-II vehicles from the Tanegashima Space Center.", "administrator": "Administrator: Hiroshi Yamakawa", "founding_year": 2003, "launchers": "H-II", "spacecraft": "", "parent": null, "image": { "id": 16, "name": "[AUTO] Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/japan2520aerospace2520exploration2520agency_image_20190207032440.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305184621.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "logo": { "id": 151, "name": "[AUTO] Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency - logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/japan2520aerospace2520exploration2520agency_logo_20190207032440.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185023.png", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "social_logo": { "id": 69, "name": "[AUTO] Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency - social_logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/japan2520aerospace2520exploration2520agency_nation_20230531052930.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305184813.png", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] } } ], "name": "Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2", "image": { "id": 1751, "name": "H-IIB 304 liftoff from LP-2 (HTV-3)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/h-iib_304_lifto_image_20240325125154.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/h-iib_304_lifto_image_thumbnail_20240325125154.jpeg", "credit": "JAXA", "license": { "id": 9, "name": "JAXA Image Usage Policy", "priority": 8, "link": "https://global.jaxa.jp/policy.html" }, "single_use": false, "variants": [] }, "description": "", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinobu_Launch_Complex", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=30.400938,130.97564", "latitude": 30.400938, "longitude": 130.97564, "country": { "id": 28, "name": "Japan", "alpha_2_code": "JP", "alpha_3_code": "JPN", "nationality_name": "Japanese", "nationality_name_composed": "Nippo" }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_yoshinobu_launch_complex_lp-2_20230707124715.jpg", "total_launch_count": 14, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 14, "fastest_turnaround": "P90DT1H42M", "location": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 26, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/locations/26/?format=api", "name": "Tanegashima Space Center, Japan", "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1, "name": "Earth", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Planet" }, "diameter": 12742000.0, "mass": 5.972168e+24, "gravity": 9.80655, "length_of_day": "1 00:00:00", "atmosphere": true, "image": { "id": 2040, "name": "Earth (Apollo 17)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_20240402194304.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_thumbnail_20240402194305.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "description": "Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth", "total_attempted_launches": 7152, "successful_launches": 6609, "failed_launches": 543, "total_attempted_landings": 1106, "successful_landings": 1063, "failed_landings": 43 }, "active": true, "country": { "id": 28, "name": "Japan", "alpha_2_code": "JP", "alpha_3_code": "JPN", "nationality_name": "Japanese", "nationality_name_composed": "Nippo" }, "description": "The Tanegashima Space Center is the largest rocket-launch complex in Japan. It is located on the southeastern tip of Tanegashima, an island located south of Kyushu, an island and region and Japan. It was established in 1969 when the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) was formed, and is now run by JAXA. The activities that take place at TNSC include assembly, testing, launching, and tracking satellites, as well as rocket engine firing tests.", "image": { "id": 2223, "name": "Tanegashima Space Center", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/tanegashima_spa_image_20240920081514.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/tanegashima_spa_image_thumbnail_20240920081514.jpeg", "credit": "JAXA", "license": { "id": 9, "name": "JAXA Image Usage Policy", "priority": 8, "link": "https://global.jaxa.jp/policy.html" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_26_20200803142507.jpg", "longitude": 130.97, "latitude": 30.4, "timezone_name": "Asia/Tokyo", "total_launch_count": 94, "total_landing_count": 0 } }, "webcast_live": false, "program": [ { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 17, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/programs/17/?format=api", "name": "International Space Station", "image": { "id": 1874, "name": "[AUTO] International Space Station - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/international2_program_20201129184745.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194014.png", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "info_url": "https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station_programme", "description": "The International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the sixteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and utilization, and responsibilities for crew rotation and resupply of the International Space Station. It was conceived in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan, during the Space Station Freedom project as it was originally called.", "agencies": [ { "response_mode": "list", "id": 16, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/16/?format=api", "name": "Canadian Space Agency", "abbrev": "CSA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, { "response_mode": "list", "id": 27, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/27/?format=api", "name": "European Space Agency", "abbrev": "ESA", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Multinational" } }, { "response_mode": "list", "id": 37, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/37/?format=api", "name": "Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency", "abbrev": "JAXA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, { "response_mode": "list", "id": 63, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/63/?format=api", "name": "Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)", "abbrev": "RFSA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } } ], "start_date": "1998-11-20T06:40:00Z", "end_date": null, "mission_patches": [], "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Human Spaceflight" } } ], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 5608, "location_launch_attempt_count": 68, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 6, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 30, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 79, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 3, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 1, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 3 }, "duration": "P58DT1H39M13S", "turn_around_time": null, "response_mode": "normal" }, "payloadflight": null }, { "id": 480, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/landings/480/?format=api", "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "The Mercury spacecraft safely splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean.", "downrange_distance": null, "landing_location": { "id": 6, "name": "Atlantic Ocean", "active": true, "abbrev": "ATL", "description": "Atlantic Ocean", "location": null, "longitude": null, "latitude": null, "image": { "id": 2230, "name": "Sun glint on the Atlantic Ocean", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/sun_glint_on_th_image_20240920085841.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/sun_glint_on_th_image_thumbnail_20240920085841.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "successful_landings": 37, "attempted_landings": 41, "failed_landings": 4, "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1, "name": "Earth", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Planet" }, "diameter": 12742000.0, "mass": 5.972168e+24, "gravity": 9.80655, "length_of_day": "1 00:00:00", "atmosphere": true, "image": { "id": 2040, "name": "Earth (Apollo 17)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_20240402194304.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_thumbnail_20240402194305.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "description": "Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth" } }, "type": { "id": 4, "name": "Parachute Landing", "abbrev": "PCL", "description": "Unpowered landing using parachute(s)." }, "response_mode": "normal", "firststage": null, "spacecraftflight": { "id": 201, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft_flights/201/?format=api", "destination": "Suborbital", "mission_end": "1961-07-21T12:36:00Z", "spacecraft": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 3, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft/3/?format=api", "name": "Mercury No.11", "serial_number": "11", "is_placeholder": false, "image": { "id": 1917, "name": "[AUTO] Mercury - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mercury_image_20190207032519.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194131.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "PT16M", "time_docked": "P0D", "flights_count": 1, "mission_ends_count": 1, "status": { "id": 4, "name": "Single Use" }, "description": "Mercury No.11 is the Mercury capsule used for the Mercury-Redstone 4 - callsign \"Liberty Bell 7\" - mission launched on July 21, 1961 and piloted by astronaut Virgil \"Gus\" Grissom.", "spacecraft_config": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 11, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft_configurations/11/?format=api", "name": "Mercury", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Capsule" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "family": [], "in_use": false, "image": { "id": 1917, "name": "[AUTO] Mercury - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mercury_image_20190207032519.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194131.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] } }, "fastest_turnaround": null }, "launch": { "id": "4c732b42-e40e-4ee0-a917-bf427cea9f29", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launches/4c732b42-e40e-4ee0-a917-bf427cea9f29/?format=api", "name": "Redstone MRLV | Mercury-Redstone 4", "response_mode": "normal", "slug": "redstone-mrlv-mercury-redstone-4", "launch_designator": null, "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2023-07-08T08:58:19Z", "net": "1961-07-21T12:20:00Z", "net_precision": null, "window_end": "1961-07-21T12:20:00Z", "window_start": "1961-07-21T12:20:00Z", "image": { "id": 1814, "name": "[AUTO] Redstone - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/redstone_image_20190207032627.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305193835.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "infographic": null, "probability": -1, "weather_concerns": null, "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "rocket": { "id": 2175, "configuration": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 107, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launcher_configurations/107/?format=api", "name": "Redstone", "families": [ { "response_mode": "list", "id": 91, "name": "Redstone" } ], "full_name": "Redstone MRLV", "variant": "MRLV" } }, "mission": { "id": 941, "name": "Mercury-Redstone 4", "type": "Human Exploration", "description": "Mercury-Redstone 4 was the second United States human spaceflight, on July 21, 1961. The suborbital Project Mercury flight was launched with a Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle, MRLV-8. The spacecraft, Mercury capsule #11, was nicknamed the Liberty Bell 7, and it was piloted by the astronaut Virgil \"Gus\" Grissom.", "image": null, "orbit": { "id": 15, "name": "Suborbital", "abbrev": "Sub", "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 1, "name": "Earth" } }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 123, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/pads/123/?format=api", "active": true, "agencies": [ { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 161, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/161/?format=api", "name": "United States Air Force", "abbrev": "USAF", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" }, "featured": false, "country": [ { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" } ], "description": "The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Signal Corps, the USAF was established as a separate branch of the United States Armed Forces in 1947 with the enactment of the National Security Act of 1947.", "administrator": "Commander-in-Chief: President of the US", "founding_year": 1947, "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "parent": null, "image": null, "logo": { "id": 193, "name": "[AUTO] United States Air Force - logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/united2520states2520air2520force_logo_20230804084626.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185152.png", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "social_logo": { "id": 99, "name": "[AUTO] United States Air Force - social_logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/united2520states2520air2520force_nation_20230804085132.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305184855.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] } } ], "name": "Launch Complex 5", "image": null, "description": null, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Launch_Complex_5", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=28.43942,-80.573301", "latitude": 28.43942, "longitude": -80.573301, "country": { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_123_20200803143235.jpg", "total_launch_count": 13, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 7, "fastest_turnaround": "P28DT2H15M", "location": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 12, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/locations/12/?format=api", "name": "Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA", "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1, "name": "Earth", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Planet" }, "diameter": 12742000.0, "mass": 5.972168e+24, "gravity": 9.80655, "length_of_day": "1 00:00:00", "atmosphere": true, "image": { "id": 2040, "name": "Earth (Apollo 17)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_20240402194304.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_thumbnail_20240402194305.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "description": "Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth", "total_attempted_launches": 7152, "successful_launches": 6609, "failed_launches": 543, "total_attempted_landings": 1106, "successful_landings": 1063, "failed_landings": 43 }, "active": true, "country": { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" }, "description": "Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida.", "image": { "id": 2200, "name": "Cape Canaveral & KSC seen from orbit (STS-43)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/cape_canaveral__image_20240918151615.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/cape_canaveral__image_thumbnail_20240918151616.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_12_20200803142519.jpg", "longitude": -80.577778, "latitude": 28.488889, "timezone_name": "America/New_York", "total_launch_count": 1022, "total_landing_count": 64 } }, "webcast_live": false, "program": [ { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 2, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/programs/2/?format=api", "name": "Mercury", "image": { "id": 1880, "name": "[AUTO] Mercury - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/project2520mer_program_20200820194755.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194025.png", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "info_url": "https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mercury/missions/program-toc.html", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury", "description": "Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963.", "agencies": [ { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } } ], "start_date": "1958-10-07T00:00:00Z", "end_date": "1963-05-16T23:24:02Z", "mission_patches": [], "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Human Spaceflight" } } ], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": null, "location_launch_attempt_count": 63, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 13, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 30, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 0, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 13, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 4, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 11 }, "duration": "PT16M", "turn_around_time": null, "response_mode": "normal" }, "payloadflight": null }, { "id": 481, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/landings/481/?format=api", "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "The Mercury spacecraft safely splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean.", "downrange_distance": null, "landing_location": { "id": 6, "name": "Atlantic Ocean", "active": true, "abbrev": "ATL", "description": "Atlantic Ocean", "location": null, "longitude": null, "latitude": null, "image": { "id": 2230, "name": "Sun glint on the Atlantic Ocean", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/sun_glint_on_th_image_20240920085841.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/sun_glint_on_th_image_thumbnail_20240920085841.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "successful_landings": 37, "attempted_landings": 41, "failed_landings": 4, "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1, "name": "Earth", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Planet" }, "diameter": 12742000.0, "mass": 5.972168e+24, "gravity": 9.80655, "length_of_day": "1 00:00:00", "atmosphere": true, "image": { "id": 2040, "name": "Earth (Apollo 17)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_20240402194304.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_thumbnail_20240402194305.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "description": "Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth" } }, "type": { "id": 4, "name": "Parachute Landing", "abbrev": "PCL", "description": "Unpowered landing using parachute(s)." }, "response_mode": "normal", "firststage": null, "spacecraftflight": { "id": 2, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft_flights/2/?format=api", "destination": "Low Earth Orbit", "mission_end": "1962-02-20T19:43:00Z", "spacecraft": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 4, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft/4/?format=api", "name": "Mercury No.13", "serial_number": "13", "is_placeholder": false, "image": { "id": 1917, "name": "[AUTO] Mercury - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mercury_image_20190207032519.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194131.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "PT4H55M21S", "time_docked": "P0D", "flights_count": 1, "mission_ends_count": 1, "status": { "id": 4, "name": "Single Use" }, "description": "Mercury No.13 is the Mercury capsule used for the Mercury-Atlas 6 - callsign \"Friendship 7\" - mission launched on February 20, 1962 and piloted by astronaut John Glenn.", "spacecraft_config": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 11, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft_configurations/11/?format=api", "name": "Mercury", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Capsule" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "family": [], "in_use": false, "image": { "id": 1917, "name": "[AUTO] Mercury - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mercury_image_20190207032519.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194131.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] } }, "fastest_turnaround": null }, "launch": { "id": "ef68f324-c31b-471c-b401-2ce64aaa229c", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launches/ef68f324-c31b-471c-b401-2ce64aaa229c/?format=api", "name": "Atlas LV-3B | Mercury-Atlas 6", "response_mode": "normal", "slug": "atlas-lv-3b-mercury-atlas-6", "launch_designator": "1962-003", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2023-06-14T17:42:42Z", "net": "1962-02-20T14:47:39Z", "net_precision": null, "window_end": "1962-02-20T14:47:39Z", "window_start": "1962-02-20T14:47:39Z", "image": { "id": 1696, "name": "[AUTO] Atlas LV-3B - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/atlas_image_20190222030015.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305193522.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "infographic": null, "probability": -1, "weather_concerns": null, "failreason": null, "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "rocket": { "id": 191, "configuration": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 162, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launcher_configurations/162/?format=api", "name": "Atlas LV-3B", "families": [ { "response_mode": "list", "id": 66, "name": "Atlas" }, { "response_mode": "list", "id": 188, "name": "Atlas D" } ], "full_name": "Atlas LV-3B", "variant": "LV-3B" } }, "mission": { "id": 757, "name": "Mercury-Atlas 6", "type": "Human Exploration", "description": "Mercury-Atlas 6 was the third crewed spaceflight for the United States. The spacecraft, named Friendship 7, completed three orbits making John Glenn the first United States astronaut to orbit Earth. The mission lasted for 4 hours, 55 minutes & 23seconds.", "image": null, "orbit": { "id": 8, "name": "Low Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "LEO", "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 1, "name": "Earth" } }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 17, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/pads/17/?format=api", "active": true, "agencies": [ { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1048, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/1048/?format=api", "name": "Stoke Space", "abbrev": "Stoke", "type": { "id": 5, "name": "Private" }, "featured": false, "country": [ { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" } ], "description": "Stoke Space Technologies is an American space launch company based in the Seattle suburb of Kent, Washington.", "administrator": "CEO: Andy Lapsa", "founding_year": null, "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "parent": null, "image": null, "logo": { "id": 187, "name": "[AUTO] Stoke Space - logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/stoke2520space_logo_20230308081301.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185139.png", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "social_logo": null } ], "name": "Space Launch Complex 14", "image": null, "description": null, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Air_Force_Station_Launch_Complex_14", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=28.49103,-80.54687", "latitude": 28.49103, "longitude": -80.54687, "country": { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_17_20200803143405.jpg", "total_launch_count": 20, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 16, "fastest_turnaround": "P14DT23H44M59S", "location": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 12, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/locations/12/?format=api", "name": "Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA", "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1, "name": "Earth", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Planet" }, "diameter": 12742000.0, "mass": 5.972168e+24, "gravity": 9.80655, "length_of_day": "1 00:00:00", "atmosphere": true, "image": { "id": 2040, "name": "Earth (Apollo 17)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_20240402194304.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_thumbnail_20240402194305.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "description": "Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth", "total_attempted_launches": 7152, "successful_launches": 6609, "failed_launches": 543, "total_attempted_landings": 1106, "successful_landings": 1063, "failed_landings": 43 }, "active": true, "country": { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" }, "description": "Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida.", "image": { "id": 2200, "name": "Cape Canaveral & KSC seen from orbit (STS-43)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/cape_canaveral__image_20240918151615.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/cape_canaveral__image_thumbnail_20240918151616.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_12_20200803142519.jpg", "longitude": -80.577778, "latitude": 28.488889, "timezone_name": "America/New_York", "total_launch_count": 1022, "total_landing_count": 64 } }, "webcast_live": false, "program": [ { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 2, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/programs/2/?format=api", "name": "Mercury", "image": { "id": 1880, "name": "[AUTO] Mercury - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/project2520mer_program_20200820194755.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194025.png", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "info_url": "https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mercury/missions/program-toc.html", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury", "description": "Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963.", "agencies": [ { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } } ], "start_date": "1958-10-07T00:00:00Z", "end_date": "1963-05-16T23:24:02Z", "mission_patches": [], "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Human Spaceflight" } } ], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 147, "location_launch_attempt_count": 76, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 10, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 37, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 5, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 4, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 1, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 1 }, "duration": "PT4H55M21S", "turn_around_time": null, "response_mode": "normal" }, "payloadflight": null }, { "id": 483, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/landings/483/?format=api", "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "The Mercury spacecraft safely splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean.", "downrange_distance": null, "landing_location": { "id": 6, "name": "Atlantic Ocean", "active": true, "abbrev": "ATL", "description": "Atlantic Ocean", "location": null, "longitude": null, "latitude": null, "image": { "id": 2230, "name": "Sun glint on the Atlantic Ocean", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/sun_glint_on_th_image_20240920085841.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/sun_glint_on_th_image_thumbnail_20240920085841.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "successful_landings": 37, "attempted_landings": 41, "failed_landings": 4, "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1, "name": "Earth", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Planet" }, "diameter": 12742000.0, "mass": 5.972168e+24, "gravity": 9.80655, "length_of_day": "1 00:00:00", "atmosphere": true, "image": { "id": 2040, "name": "Earth (Apollo 17)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_20240402194304.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_thumbnail_20240402194305.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "description": "Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth" } }, "type": { "id": 4, "name": "Parachute Landing", "abbrev": "PCL", "description": "Unpowered landing using parachute(s)." }, "response_mode": "normal", "firststage": null, "spacecraftflight": { "id": 701, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft_flights/701/?format=api", "destination": "Suborbital", "mission_end": "1961-04-28T14:08:00Z", "spacecraft": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 485, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft/485/?format=api", "name": "Mercury No.14", "serial_number": "14", "is_placeholder": false, "image": { "id": 1917, "name": "[AUTO] Mercury - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mercury_image_20190207032519.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194131.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "PT10M", "time_docked": "P0D", "flights_count": 2, "mission_ends_count": 2, "status": { "id": 4, "name": "Single Use" }, "description": "Mercury No.14 is the Mercury capsule used for the Little Joe 5A mission.", "spacecraft_config": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 11, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft_configurations/11/?format=api", "name": "Mercury", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Capsule" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "family": [], "in_use": false, "image": { "id": 1917, "name": "[AUTO] Mercury - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mercury_image_20190207032519.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194131.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] } }, "fastest_turnaround": "P40DT21H9M" }, "launch": { "id": "646b10d8-b33b-4241-8982-3ea60a4fd3a8", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launches/646b10d8-b33b-4241-8982-3ea60a4fd3a8/?format=api", "name": "Little Joe | LJ-5B", "response_mode": "normal", "slug": "little-joe-lj-5b", "launch_designator": null, "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2023-06-14T04:31:01Z", "net": "1961-04-28T14:03:00Z", "net_precision": null, "window_end": "1961-04-28T14:03:00Z", "window_start": "1961-04-28T14:03:00Z", "image": { "id": 1761, "name": "[AUTO] Little Joe - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/little_joe_image_20210901081353.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305193708.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "infographic": null, "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "rocket": { "id": 7442, "configuration": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 473, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launcher_configurations/473/?format=api", "name": "Little Joe", "families": [ { "response_mode": "list", "id": 105, "name": "Little Joe" } ], "full_name": "Little Joe", "variant": "" } }, "mission": { "id": 5832, "name": "LJ-5B", "type": "Test Flight", "description": "Little Joe 5B was an uncrewed launch escape system test of the Mercury spacecraft, conducted as part of the US Mercury program.", "image": null, "orbit": { "id": 15, "name": "Suborbital", "abbrev": "Sub", "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 1, "name": "Earth" } }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 196, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/pads/196/?format=api", "active": true, "agencies": [ { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" }, "featured": true, "country": [ { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" } ], "description": "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.", "administrator": "Acting Administrator: James Free", "founding_year": 1958, "launchers": "Space Shuttle | SLS", "spacecraft": "Orion", "parent": null, "image": { "id": 19, "name": "[AUTO] National Aeronautics and Space Administration - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/national2520aeronautics2520and2520space2520administration_image_20190207032448.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305184631.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "logo": { "id": 161, "name": "[AUTO] National Aeronautics and Space Administration - logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/national2520aeronautics2520and2520space2520administration_logo_20190207032448.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185043.png", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "social_logo": { "id": 76, "name": "[AUTO] National Aeronautics and Space Administration - social_logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/national2520aeronautics2520and2520space2520administration_nation_20230803040809.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305184823.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] } } ], "name": "Launch Area 4", "image": null, "description": null, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallops_Flight_Facility", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=37.938611,-75.457222", "latitude": 37.938611, "longitude": -75.457222, "country": { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_launch_area_4_20210901092808.jpg", "total_launch_count": 1, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 0, "fastest_turnaround": null, "location": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 21, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/locations/21/?format=api", "name": "Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA", "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1, "name": "Earth", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Planet" }, "diameter": 12742000.0, "mass": 5.972168e+24, "gravity": 9.80655, "length_of_day": "1 00:00:00", "atmosphere": true, "image": { "id": 2040, "name": "Earth (Apollo 17)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_20240402194304.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_thumbnail_20240402194305.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "description": "Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth", "total_attempted_launches": 7152, "successful_launches": 6609, "failed_launches": 543, "total_attempted_landings": 1106, "successful_landings": 1063, "failed_landings": 43 }, "active": true, "country": { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" }, "description": "Wallops Flight Facility is a rocket launch site on Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula and north-northeast of Norfolk. The facility is operated by the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and primarily serves to support science and exploration missions for NASA and other federal agencies. WFF includes an extensively instrumented range to support launches of more than a dozen types of sounding rockets; small expendable suborbital and orbital rockets; high-altitude balloon flights carrying scientific instruments for atmospheric and astronomical research; and, using its Research Airport, flight tests of aeronautical research aircraft, including uncrewed aerial vehicles.", "image": { "id": 2227, "name": "Wallops Flight Facility", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/wallops_flight__image_20240920083715.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/wallops_flight__image_thumbnail_20240920083715.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_21_20200803142423.jpg", "longitude": -75.467778, "latitude": 37.933333, "timezone_name": "America/New_York", "total_launch_count": 80, "total_landing_count": 0 } }, "webcast_live": false, "program": [ { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 2, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/programs/2/?format=api", "name": "Mercury", "image": { "id": 1880, "name": "[AUTO] Mercury - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/project2520mer_program_20200820194755.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194025.png", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "info_url": "https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mercury/missions/program-toc.html", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury", "description": "Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963.", "agencies": [ { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } } ], "start_date": "1958-10-07T00:00:00Z", "end_date": "1963-05-16T23:24:02Z", "mission_patches": [], "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Human Spaceflight" } } ], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": null, "location_launch_attempt_count": 12, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 1, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 27, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 0, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 4, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 1, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 8 }, "duration": "PT5M", "turn_around_time": "P40DT21H9M", "response_mode": "normal" }, "payloadflight": null }, { "id": 484, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/landings/484/?format=api", "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "The Mercury spacecraft safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean.", "downrange_distance": null, "landing_location": { "id": 18, "name": "Pacific Ocean", "active": true, "abbrev": "PAC", "description": "Pacific Ocean", "location": null, "longitude": null, "latitude": null, "image": { "id": 2242, "name": "Pacific Ocean from the ISS", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/pacific_ocean_f_image_20240920094534.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/pacific_ocean_f_image_thumbnail_20240920094534.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "successful_landings": 46, "attempted_landings": 48, "failed_landings": 2, "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1, "name": "Earth", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Planet" }, "diameter": 12742000.0, "mass": 5.972168e+24, "gravity": 9.80655, "length_of_day": "1 00:00:00", "atmosphere": true, "image": { "id": 2040, "name": "Earth (Apollo 17)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_20240402194304.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_thumbnail_20240402194305.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "description": "Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth" } }, "type": { "id": 4, "name": "Parachute Landing", "abbrev": "PCL", "description": "Unpowered landing using parachute(s)." }, "response_mode": "normal", "firststage": null, "spacecraftflight": { "id": 4, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft_flights/4/?format=api", "destination": "Low Earth Orbit", "mission_end": "1962-10-03T21:28:00Z", "spacecraft": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 6, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft/6/?format=api", "name": "Mercury No.16", "serial_number": "16", "is_placeholder": false, "image": { "id": 1917, "name": "[AUTO] Mercury - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mercury_image_20190207032519.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194131.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "PT9H12M48S", "time_docked": "P0D", "flights_count": 1, "mission_ends_count": 1, "status": { "id": 4, "name": "Single Use" }, "description": "Mercury No.16 is the Mercury capsule used for the Mercury-Atlas 8 - callsign \"Sigma 7\" - mission launched on October 3, 1962 and piloted by astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr.", "spacecraft_config": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 11, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft_configurations/11/?format=api", "name": "Mercury", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Capsule" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "family": [], "in_use": false, "image": { "id": 1917, "name": "[AUTO] Mercury - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mercury_image_20190207032519.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194131.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] } }, "fastest_turnaround": null }, "launch": { "id": "06763ce6-08ff-4770-8cf3-14e51129c900", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launches/06763ce6-08ff-4770-8cf3-14e51129c900/?format=api", "name": "Atlas LV-3B | Mercury-Atlas 8", "response_mode": "normal", "slug": "atlas-lv-3b-mercury-atlas-8", "launch_designator": "1962-052", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2023-06-14T17:42:43Z", "net": "1962-10-03T12:15:12Z", "net_precision": null, "window_end": "1962-10-03T12:15:12Z", "window_start": "1962-10-03T12:15:12Z", "image": { "id": 1696, "name": "[AUTO] Atlas LV-3B - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/atlas_image_20190222030015.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305193522.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "infographic": null, "probability": -1, "weather_concerns": null, "failreason": null, "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "rocket": { "id": 195, "configuration": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 162, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launcher_configurations/162/?format=api", "name": "Atlas LV-3B", "families": [ { "response_mode": "list", "id": 66, "name": "Atlas" }, { "response_mode": "list", "id": 188, "name": "Atlas D" } ], "full_name": "Atlas LV-3B", "variant": "LV-3B" } }, "mission": { "id": 165, "name": "Mercury-Atlas 8", "type": "Human Exploration", "description": "Mercury-Atlas 6 carrying Sigma 7 spacecraft carried astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr. to orbit where he completed 6 orbits lasting a total of 9 hours and 13 minutes. The mission goal was to compete engineering tests and all objectives were met.", "image": null, "orbit": { "id": 8, "name": "Low Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "LEO", "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 1, "name": "Earth" } }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 17, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/pads/17/?format=api", "active": true, "agencies": [ { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1048, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/1048/?format=api", "name": "Stoke Space", "abbrev": "Stoke", "type": { "id": 5, "name": "Private" }, "featured": false, "country": [ { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" } ], "description": "Stoke Space Technologies is an American space launch company based in the Seattle suburb of Kent, Washington.", "administrator": "CEO: Andy Lapsa", "founding_year": null, "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "parent": null, "image": null, "logo": { "id": 187, "name": "[AUTO] Stoke Space - logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/stoke2520space_logo_20230308081301.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185139.png", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "social_logo": null } ], "name": "Space Launch Complex 14", "image": null, "description": null, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Air_Force_Station_Launch_Complex_14", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=28.49103,-80.54687", "latitude": 28.49103, "longitude": -80.54687, "country": { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_17_20200803143405.jpg", "total_launch_count": 20, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 16, "fastest_turnaround": "P14DT23H44M59S", "location": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 12, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/locations/12/?format=api", "name": "Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA", "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1, "name": "Earth", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Planet" }, "diameter": 12742000.0, "mass": 5.972168e+24, "gravity": 9.80655, "length_of_day": "1 00:00:00", "atmosphere": true, "image": { "id": 2040, "name": "Earth (Apollo 17)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_20240402194304.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_thumbnail_20240402194305.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "description": "Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth", "total_attempted_launches": 7152, "successful_launches": 6609, "failed_launches": 543, "total_attempted_landings": 1106, "successful_landings": 1063, "failed_landings": 43 }, "active": true, "country": { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" }, "description": "Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida.", "image": { "id": 2200, "name": "Cape Canaveral & KSC seen from orbit (STS-43)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/cape_canaveral__image_20240918151615.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/cape_canaveral__image_thumbnail_20240918151616.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_12_20200803142519.jpg", "longitude": -80.577778, "latitude": 28.488889, "timezone_name": "America/New_York", "total_launch_count": 1022, "total_landing_count": 64 } }, "webcast_live": false, "program": [ { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 2, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/programs/2/?format=api", "name": "Mercury", "image": { "id": 1880, "name": "[AUTO] Mercury - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/project2520mer_program_20200820194755.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194025.png", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "info_url": "https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mercury/missions/program-toc.html", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury", "description": "Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963.", "agencies": [ { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } } ], "start_date": "1958-10-07T00:00:00Z", "end_date": "1963-05-16T23:24:02Z", "mission_patches": [], "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Human Spaceflight" } } ], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 202, "location_launch_attempt_count": 89, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 12, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 43, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 60, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 17, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 3, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 7 }, "duration": "PT9H12M48S", "turn_around_time": null, "response_mode": "normal" }, "payloadflight": null }, { "id": 485, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/landings/485/?format=api", "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "The Mercury spacecraft safely splashed down in the Carribean Sea.", "downrange_distance": null, "landing_location": { "id": 6, "name": "Atlantic Ocean", "active": true, "abbrev": "ATL", "description": "Atlantic Ocean", "location": null, "longitude": null, "latitude": null, "image": { "id": 2230, "name": "Sun glint on the Atlantic Ocean", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/sun_glint_on_th_image_20240920085841.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/sun_glint_on_th_image_thumbnail_20240920085841.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "successful_landings": 37, "attempted_landings": 41, "failed_landings": 4, "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1, "name": "Earth", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Planet" }, "diameter": 12742000.0, "mass": 5.972168e+24, "gravity": 9.80655, "length_of_day": "1 00:00:00", "atmosphere": true, "image": { "id": 2040, "name": "Earth (Apollo 17)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_20240402194304.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_thumbnail_20240402194305.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "description": "Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth" } }, "type": { "id": 4, "name": "Parachute Landing", "abbrev": "PCL", "description": "Unpowered landing using parachute(s)." }, "response_mode": "normal", "firststage": null, "spacecraftflight": { "id": 3, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft_flights/3/?format=api", "destination": "Low Earth Orbit", "mission_end": "1962-05-24T17:41:00Z", "spacecraft": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 5, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft/5/?format=api", "name": "Mercury No.18", "serial_number": "18", "is_placeholder": false, "image": { "id": 1917, "name": "[AUTO] Mercury - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mercury_image_20190207032519.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194131.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "PT4H55M44S", "time_docked": "P0D", "flights_count": 1, "mission_ends_count": 1, "status": { "id": 4, "name": "Single Use" }, "description": "Mercury No.18 is the Mercury capsule used for the Mercury-Atlas 7 - callsign \"Aurora 7\" - mission launched on May 24, 1962 and piloted by astronaut Scott Carpenter.", "spacecraft_config": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 11, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft_configurations/11/?format=api", "name": "Mercury", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Capsule" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "family": [], "in_use": false, "image": { "id": 1917, "name": "[AUTO] Mercury - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mercury_image_20190207032519.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194131.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] } }, "fastest_turnaround": null }, "launch": { "id": "bb844564-1ae0-4af2-b2a1-f3a28195ea0f", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launches/bb844564-1ae0-4af2-b2a1-f3a28195ea0f/?format=api", "name": "Atlas LV-3B | Mercury-Atlas 7", "response_mode": "normal", "slug": "atlas-lv-3b-mercury-atlas-7", "launch_designator": "1962-019", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2023-06-14T17:42:42Z", "net": "1962-05-24T12:45:16Z", "net_precision": null, "window_end": "1962-05-24T12:45:16Z", "window_start": "1962-05-24T12:45:16Z", "image": { "id": 1696, "name": "[AUTO] Atlas LV-3B - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/atlas_image_20190222030015.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305193522.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "infographic": null, "probability": -1, "weather_concerns": null, "failreason": null, "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "rocket": { "id": 192, "configuration": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 162, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launcher_configurations/162/?format=api", "name": "Atlas LV-3B", "families": [ { "response_mode": "list", "id": 66, "name": "Atlas" }, { "response_mode": "list", "id": 188, "name": "Atlas D" } ], "full_name": "Atlas LV-3B", "variant": "LV-3B" } }, "mission": { "id": 170, "name": "Mercury-Atlas 7", "type": "Human Exploration", "description": "Mercury-Atlas 7 was the fourth crewed spaceflight for the United States. The spacecraft, named Aurora 7, carried the astronaut Scott Carpenter to orbit where it completed three orbits before returning to Earth. The mission lasted for 4 hours, 56 minutes & 5 seconds. Due to a targeting error during reentry the spacecraft splashed about 400 km off-course delaying the recovery efforts.", "image": null, "orbit": { "id": 8, "name": "Low Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "LEO", "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 1, "name": "Earth" } }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 17, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/pads/17/?format=api", "active": true, "agencies": [ { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1048, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/1048/?format=api", "name": "Stoke Space", "abbrev": "Stoke", "type": { "id": 5, "name": "Private" }, "featured": false, "country": [ { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" } ], "description": "Stoke Space Technologies is an American space launch company based in the Seattle suburb of Kent, Washington.", "administrator": "CEO: Andy Lapsa", "founding_year": null, "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "parent": null, "image": null, "logo": { "id": 187, "name": "[AUTO] Stoke Space - logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/stoke2520space_logo_20230308081301.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185139.png", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "social_logo": null } ], "name": "Space Launch Complex 14", "image": null, "description": null, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Air_Force_Station_Launch_Complex_14", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=28.49103,-80.54687", "latitude": 28.49103, "longitude": -80.54687, "country": { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_17_20200803143405.jpg", "total_launch_count": 20, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 16, "fastest_turnaround": "P14DT23H44M59S", "location": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 12, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/locations/12/?format=api", "name": "Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA", "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1, "name": "Earth", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Planet" }, "diameter": 12742000.0, "mass": 5.972168e+24, "gravity": 9.80655, "length_of_day": "1 00:00:00", "atmosphere": true, "image": { "id": 2040, "name": "Earth (Apollo 17)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_20240402194304.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_thumbnail_20240402194305.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "description": "Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth", "total_attempted_launches": 7152, "successful_launches": 6609, "failed_launches": 543, "total_attempted_landings": 1106, "successful_landings": 1063, "failed_landings": 43 }, "active": true, "country": { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" }, "description": "Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida.", "image": { "id": 2200, "name": "Cape Canaveral & KSC seen from orbit (STS-43)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/cape_canaveral__image_20240918151615.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/cape_canaveral__image_thumbnail_20240918151616.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_12_20200803142519.jpg", "longitude": -80.577778, "latitude": 28.488889, "timezone_name": "America/New_York", "total_launch_count": 1022, "total_landing_count": 64 } }, "webcast_live": false, "program": [ { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 2, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/programs/2/?format=api", "name": "Mercury", "image": { "id": 1880, "name": "[AUTO] Mercury - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/project2520mer_program_20200820194755.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194025.png", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "info_url": "https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mercury/missions/program-toc.html", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury", "description": "Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963.", "agencies": [ { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } } ], "start_date": "1958-10-07T00:00:00Z", "end_date": "1963-05-16T23:24:02Z", "mission_patches": [], "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Human Spaceflight" } } ], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 167, "location_launch_attempt_count": 82, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 11, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 41, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 25, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 10, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 5 }, "duration": "PT4H55M44S", "turn_around_time": null, "response_mode": "normal" }, "payloadflight": null }, { "id": 486, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/landings/486/?format=api", "attempt": false, "success": null, "description": "The Mercury spacecraft was undamaged after the launch failure which resulted in the rocket remaining on the pad.", "downrange_distance": null, "landing_location": null, "type": null, "response_mode": "normal", "firststage": null, "spacecraftflight": { "id": 695, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft_flights/695/?format=api", "destination": "Suborbital", "mission_end": "1960-11-21T14:00:00Z", "spacecraft": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 9, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft/9/?format=api", "name": "Mercury No.2", "serial_number": "2", "is_placeholder": false, "image": { "id": 2147, "name": "Mercury Spacecraft at NASA Ames", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mercury_spacecr_image_20240812142248.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mercury_spacecr_image_thumbnail_20240812142248.jpeg", "credit": "Oleg Alexandrov", "license": { "id": 21, "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "priority": 4, "link": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "PT15M", "time_docked": "P0D", "flights_count": 2, "mission_ends_count": 2, "status": { "id": 4, "name": "Single Use" }, "description": "Mercury No.2 is the Mercury capsule used for the Mercury-Redsone 1 mission which failed on launch.", "spacecraft_config": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 11, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft_configurations/11/?format=api", "name": "Mercury", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Capsule" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "family": [], "in_use": false, "image": { "id": 1917, "name": "[AUTO] Mercury - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mercury_image_20190207032519.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194131.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] } }, "fastest_turnaround": "P28DT2H15M" }, "launch": { "id": "0abcc2bf-6243-4f2c-8c14-cac541595992", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launches/0abcc2bf-6243-4f2c-8c14-cac541595992/?format=api", "name": "Redstone MRLV | Mercury-Redstone 1", "response_mode": "normal", "slug": "redstone-mrlv-mercury-redstone-1", "launch_designator": null, "status": { "id": 4, "name": "Launch Failure", "abbrev": "Failure", "description": "Either the launch vehicle did not reach orbit, or the payload(s) failed to separate." }, "last_updated": "2023-07-08T08:57:25Z", "net": "1960-11-21T14:00:00Z", "net_precision": null, "window_end": "1960-11-21T14:00:00Z", "window_start": "1960-11-21T14:00:00Z", "image": { "id": 1814, "name": "[AUTO] Redstone - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/redstone_image_20190207032627.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305193835.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "infographic": null, "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "rocket": { "id": 7436, "configuration": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 107, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launcher_configurations/107/?format=api", "name": "Redstone", "families": [ { "response_mode": "list", "id": 91, "name": "Redstone" } ], "full_name": "Redstone MRLV", "variant": "MRLV" } }, "mission": { "id": 5825, "name": "Mercury-Redstone 1", "type": "Test Flight", "description": "Mercury-Redstone 1 (MR-1) was the first Mercury-Redstone uncrewed flight test in Project Mercury and the first attempt to launch a Mercury spacecraft with the Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle. Intended to be an uncrewed sub-orbital spaceflight, it was launched on November 21, 1960 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The launch failed in abnormal fashion: immediately after the Mercury-Redstone rocket started to move, it shut itself down and settled back on the pad, after which the capsule jettisoned its escape rocket and deployed its recovery parachutes. The failure has been referred to as the \"four-inch flight\", for the approximate distance traveled by the launch vehicle.", "image": null, "orbit": { "id": 15, "name": "Suborbital", "abbrev": "Sub", "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 1, "name": "Earth" } }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 123, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/pads/123/?format=api", "active": true, "agencies": [ { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 161, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/161/?format=api", "name": "United States Air Force", "abbrev": "USAF", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" }, "featured": false, "country": [ { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" } ], "description": "The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Signal Corps, the USAF was established as a separate branch of the United States Armed Forces in 1947 with the enactment of the National Security Act of 1947.", "administrator": "Commander-in-Chief: President of the US", "founding_year": 1947, "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "parent": null, "image": null, "logo": { "id": 193, "name": "[AUTO] United States Air Force - logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/united2520states2520air2520force_logo_20230804084626.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185152.png", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "social_logo": { "id": 99, "name": "[AUTO] United States Air Force - social_logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/united2520states2520air2520force_nation_20230804085132.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305184855.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] } } ], "name": "Launch Complex 5", "image": null, "description": null, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Launch_Complex_5", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=28.43942,-80.573301", "latitude": 28.43942, "longitude": -80.573301, "country": { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_123_20200803143235.jpg", "total_launch_count": 13, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 7, "fastest_turnaround": "P28DT2H15M", "location": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 12, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/locations/12/?format=api", "name": "Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA", "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1, "name": "Earth", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Planet" }, "diameter": 12742000.0, "mass": 5.972168e+24, "gravity": 9.80655, "length_of_day": "1 00:00:00", "atmosphere": true, "image": { "id": 2040, "name": "Earth (Apollo 17)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_20240402194304.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_thumbnail_20240402194305.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "description": "Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth", "total_attempted_launches": 7152, "successful_launches": 6609, "failed_launches": 543, "total_attempted_landings": 1106, "successful_landings": 1063, "failed_landings": 43 }, "active": true, "country": { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" }, "description": "Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida.", "image": { "id": 2200, "name": "Cape Canaveral & KSC seen from orbit (STS-43)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/cape_canaveral__image_20240918151615.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/cape_canaveral__image_thumbnail_20240918151616.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_12_20200803142519.jpg", "longitude": -80.577778, "latitude": 28.488889, "timezone_name": "America/New_York", "total_launch_count": 1022, "total_landing_count": 64 } }, "webcast_live": false, "program": [ { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 2, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/programs/2/?format=api", "name": "Mercury", "image": { "id": 1880, "name": "[AUTO] Mercury - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/project2520mer_program_20200820194755.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194025.png", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "info_url": "https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mercury/missions/program-toc.html", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury", "description": "Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963.", "agencies": [ { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } } ], "start_date": "1958-10-07T00:00:00Z", "end_date": "1963-05-16T23:24:02Z", "mission_patches": [], "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Human Spaceflight" } } ], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": null, "location_launch_attempt_count": 46, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 8, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 17, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 0, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 16, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 1, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 7 }, "duration": "P0D", "turn_around_time": null, "response_mode": "normal" }, "payloadflight": null }, { "id": 487, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/landings/487/?format=api", "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "The Mercury spacecraft safely splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean.", "downrange_distance": null, "landing_location": { "id": 6, "name": "Atlantic Ocean", "active": true, "abbrev": "ATL", "description": "Atlantic Ocean", "location": null, "longitude": null, "latitude": null, "image": { "id": 2230, "name": "Sun glint on the Atlantic Ocean", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/sun_glint_on_th_image_20240920085841.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/sun_glint_on_th_image_thumbnail_20240920085841.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "successful_landings": 37, "attempted_landings": 41, "failed_landings": 4, "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1, "name": "Earth", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Planet" }, "diameter": 12742000.0, "mass": 5.972168e+24, "gravity": 9.80655, "length_of_day": "1 00:00:00", "atmosphere": true, "image": { "id": 2040, "name": "Earth (Apollo 17)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_20240402194304.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_thumbnail_20240402194305.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "description": "Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth" } }, "type": { "id": 4, "name": "Parachute Landing", "abbrev": "PCL", "description": "Unpowered landing using parachute(s)." }, "response_mode": "normal", "firststage": null, "spacecraftflight": { "id": 696, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft_flights/696/?format=api", "destination": "Suborbital", "mission_end": "1960-12-19T16:30:00Z", "spacecraft": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 9, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft/9/?format=api", "name": "Mercury No.2", "serial_number": "2", "is_placeholder": false, "image": { "id": 2147, "name": "Mercury Spacecraft at NASA Ames", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mercury_spacecr_image_20240812142248.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mercury_spacecr_image_thumbnail_20240812142248.jpeg", "credit": "Oleg Alexandrov", "license": { "id": 21, "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "priority": 4, "link": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "PT15M", "time_docked": "P0D", "flights_count": 2, "mission_ends_count": 2, "status": { "id": 4, "name": "Single Use" }, "description": "Mercury No.2 is the Mercury capsule used for the Mercury-Redsone 1 mission which failed on launch.", "spacecraft_config": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 11, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft_configurations/11/?format=api", "name": "Mercury", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Capsule" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "family": [], "in_use": false, "image": { "id": 1917, "name": "[AUTO] Mercury - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mercury_image_20190207032519.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194131.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] } }, "fastest_turnaround": "P28DT2H15M" }, "launch": { "id": "8089e392-6d8e-415f-9492-e80432276d49", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launches/8089e392-6d8e-415f-9492-e80432276d49/?format=api", "name": "Redstone MRLV | Mercury-Redstone 1A", "response_mode": "normal", "slug": "redstone-mrlv-mercury-redstone-1a", "launch_designator": null, "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2023-07-08T08:57:35Z", "net": "1960-12-19T16:15:00Z", "net_precision": null, "window_end": "1960-12-19T16:15:00Z", "window_start": "1960-12-19T16:15:00Z", "image": { "id": 1814, "name": "[AUTO] Redstone - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/redstone_image_20190207032627.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305193835.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "infographic": null, "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "rocket": { "id": 7437, "configuration": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 107, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launcher_configurations/107/?format=api", "name": "Redstone", "families": [ { "response_mode": "list", "id": 91, "name": "Redstone" } ], "full_name": "Redstone MRLV", "variant": "MRLV" } }, "mission": { "id": 5826, "name": "Mercury-Redstone 1A", "type": "Test Flight", "description": "Mercury-Redstone 1A (MR-1A) was launched on December 19, 1960 from LC-5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission objectives of this uncrewed suborbital flight were to qualify the spacecraft for space flight and qualify the system for an upcoming primate suborbital flight.", "image": null, "orbit": { "id": 15, "name": "Suborbital", "abbrev": "Sub", "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 1, "name": "Earth" } }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 123, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/pads/123/?format=api", "active": true, "agencies": [ { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 161, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/161/?format=api", "name": "United States Air Force", "abbrev": "USAF", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" }, "featured": false, "country": [ { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" } ], "description": "The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Signal Corps, the USAF was established as a separate branch of the United States Armed Forces in 1947 with the enactment of the National Security Act of 1947.", "administrator": "Commander-in-Chief: President of the US", "founding_year": 1947, "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "parent": null, "image": null, "logo": { "id": 193, "name": "[AUTO] United States Air Force - logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/united2520states2520air2520force_logo_20230804084626.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185152.png", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "social_logo": { "id": 99, "name": "[AUTO] United States Air Force - social_logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/united2520states2520air2520force_nation_20230804085132.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305184855.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] } } ], "name": "Launch Complex 5", "image": null, "description": null, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Launch_Complex_5", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=28.43942,-80.573301", "latitude": 28.43942, "longitude": -80.573301, "country": { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_123_20200803143235.jpg", "total_launch_count": 13, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 7, "fastest_turnaround": "P28DT2H15M", "location": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 12, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/locations/12/?format=api", "name": "Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA", "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1, "name": "Earth", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Planet" }, "diameter": 12742000.0, "mass": 5.972168e+24, "gravity": 9.80655, "length_of_day": "1 00:00:00", "atmosphere": true, "image": { "id": 2040, "name": "Earth (Apollo 17)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_20240402194304.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_thumbnail_20240402194305.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "description": "Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth", "total_attempted_launches": 7152, "successful_launches": 6609, "failed_launches": 543, "total_attempted_landings": 1106, "successful_landings": 1063, "failed_landings": 43 }, "active": true, "country": { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" }, "description": "Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida.", "image": { "id": 2200, "name": "Cape Canaveral & KSC seen from orbit (STS-43)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/cape_canaveral__image_20240918151615.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/cape_canaveral__image_thumbnail_20240918151616.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_12_20200803142519.jpg", "longitude": -80.577778, "latitude": 28.488889, "timezone_name": "America/New_York", "total_launch_count": 1022, "total_landing_count": 64 } }, "webcast_live": false, "program": [ { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 2, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/programs/2/?format=api", "name": "Mercury", "image": { "id": 1880, "name": "[AUTO] Mercury - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/project2520mer_program_20200820194755.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194025.png", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "info_url": "https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mercury/missions/program-toc.html", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury", "description": "Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963.", "agencies": [ { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } } ], "start_date": "1958-10-07T00:00:00Z", "end_date": "1963-05-16T23:24:02Z", "mission_patches": [], "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Human Spaceflight" } } ], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": null, "location_launch_attempt_count": 50, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 9, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 19, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 0, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 20, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 2, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 9 }, "duration": "PT15M", "turn_around_time": "P28DT2H15M", "response_mode": "normal" }, "payloadflight": null }, { "id": 488, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/landings/488/?format=api", "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "The Mercury spacecraft safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean.", "downrange_distance": null, "landing_location": { "id": 18, "name": "Pacific Ocean", "active": true, "abbrev": "PAC", "description": "Pacific Ocean", "location": null, "longitude": null, "latitude": null, "image": { "id": 2242, "name": "Pacific Ocean from the ISS", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/pacific_ocean_f_image_20240920094534.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/pacific_ocean_f_image_thumbnail_20240920094534.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "successful_landings": 46, "attempted_landings": 48, "failed_landings": 2, "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1, "name": "Earth", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Planet" }, "diameter": 12742000.0, "mass": 5.972168e+24, "gravity": 9.80655, "length_of_day": "1 00:00:00", "atmosphere": true, "image": { "id": 2040, "name": "Earth (Apollo 17)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_20240402194304.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_thumbnail_20240402194305.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "description": "Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth" } }, "type": { "id": 4, "name": "Parachute Landing", "abbrev": "PCL", "description": "Unpowered landing using parachute(s)." }, "response_mode": "normal", "firststage": null, "spacecraftflight": { "id": 5, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft_flights/5/?format=api", "destination": "Low Earth Orbit", "mission_end": "1963-05-16T23:24:00Z", "spacecraft": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 7, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft/7/?format=api", "name": "Mercury No.20", "serial_number": "20", "is_placeholder": false, "image": { "id": 1917, "name": "[AUTO] Mercury - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mercury_image_20190207032519.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194131.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P1DT10H19M47S", "time_docked": "P0D", "flights_count": 1, "mission_ends_count": 1, "status": { "id": 4, "name": "Single Use" }, "description": "Mercury No.20 is the Mercury capsule used for the Mercury-Atlas 9 - callsign \"Faith 7\" - mission launched on May 15, 1963 and piloted by astronaut Gordon Cooper.", "spacecraft_config": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 11, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft_configurations/11/?format=api", "name": "Mercury", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Capsule" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "family": [], "in_use": false, "image": { "id": 1917, "name": "[AUTO] Mercury - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mercury_image_20190207032519.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194131.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] } }, "fastest_turnaround": null }, "launch": { "id": "373e4f88-3f51-415c-a9f3-3d926c983694", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launches/373e4f88-3f51-415c-a9f3-3d926c983694/?format=api", "name": "Atlas LV-3B | Mercury-Atlas 9", "response_mode": "normal", "slug": "atlas-lv-3b-mercury-atlas-9", "launch_designator": "1963-015", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2023-06-14T17:42:43Z", "net": "1963-05-15T13:04:13Z", "net_precision": null, "window_end": "1963-05-15T13:04:13Z", "window_start": "1963-05-15T13:04:13Z", "image": { "id": 1696, "name": "[AUTO] Atlas LV-3B - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/atlas_image_20190222030015.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305193522.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "infographic": null, "probability": -1, "weather_concerns": null, "failreason": null, "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "rocket": { "id": 196, "configuration": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 162, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launcher_configurations/162/?format=api", "name": "Atlas LV-3B", "families": [ { "response_mode": "list", "id": 66, "name": "Atlas" }, { "response_mode": "list", "id": 188, "name": "Atlas D" } ], "full_name": "Atlas LV-3B", "variant": "LV-3B" } }, "mission": { "id": 158, "name": "Mercury-Atlas 9", "type": "Human Exploration", "description": "Mercury-Atlas 9 was the final manned spaceflight of the United States' Mercury program. It carried the Faith 7 spacecraft with astronaut Gordon Cooper to orbit where it completed 22 orbits seconds before reentry. The mission lasted for, 34 hours, 19 minutes & 49 seconds. This was the last time an American was launched to space on a solo orbital mission. The mission had several technical problems, the biggest which was a short-circuit in the bus bar serving the 250 volt main inverter causing the automatic stabilization and control system to stop working during the 21st orbit. In the end Cooper had to use lines he had drawn on the window and his wristwatch to correctly execute burns to safely re-enter the atmosphere.", "image": null, "orbit": { "id": 8, "name": "Low Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "LEO", "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 1, "name": "Earth" } }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 17, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/pads/17/?format=api", "active": true, "agencies": [ { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1048, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/1048/?format=api", "name": "Stoke Space", "abbrev": "Stoke", "type": { "id": 5, "name": "Private" }, "featured": false, "country": [ { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" } ], "description": "Stoke Space Technologies is an American space launch company based in the Seattle suburb of Kent, Washington.", "administrator": "CEO: Andy Lapsa", "founding_year": null, "launchers": "", "spacecraft": "", "parent": null, "image": null, "logo": { "id": 187, "name": "[AUTO] Stoke Space - logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/stoke2520space_logo_20230308081301.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185139.png", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "social_logo": null } ], "name": "Space Launch Complex 14", "image": null, "description": null, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Air_Force_Station_Launch_Complex_14", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=28.49103,-80.54687", "latitude": 28.49103, "longitude": -80.54687, "country": { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_17_20200803143405.jpg", "total_launch_count": 20, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 16, "fastest_turnaround": "P14DT23H44M59S", "location": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 12, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/locations/12/?format=api", "name": "Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA", "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1, "name": "Earth", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Planet" }, "diameter": 12742000.0, "mass": 5.972168e+24, "gravity": 9.80655, "length_of_day": "1 00:00:00", "atmosphere": true, "image": { "id": 2040, "name": "Earth (Apollo 17)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_20240402194304.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_thumbnail_20240402194305.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "description": "Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth", "total_attempted_launches": 7152, "successful_launches": 6609, "failed_launches": 543, "total_attempted_landings": 1106, "successful_landings": 1063, "failed_landings": 43 }, "active": true, "country": { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" }, "description": "Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida.", "image": { "id": 2200, "name": "Cape Canaveral & KSC seen from orbit (STS-43)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/cape_canaveral__image_20240918151615.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/cape_canaveral__image_thumbnail_20240918151616.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_12_20200803142519.jpg", "longitude": -80.577778, "latitude": 28.488889, "timezone_name": "America/New_York", "total_launch_count": 1022, "total_landing_count": 64 } }, "webcast_live": false, "program": [ { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 2, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/programs/2/?format=api", "name": "Mercury", "image": { "id": 1880, "name": "[AUTO] Mercury - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/project2520mer_program_20200820194755.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194025.png", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "info_url": "https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mercury/missions/program-toc.html", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury", "description": "Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963.", "agencies": [ { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } } ], "start_date": "1958-10-07T00:00:00Z", "end_date": "1963-05-16T23:24:02Z", "mission_patches": [], "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Human Spaceflight" } } ], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 246, "location_launch_attempt_count": 99, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 13, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 47, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 22, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 5, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 1, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 2 }, "duration": "P1DT10H19M47S", "turn_around_time": null, "response_mode": "normal" }, "payloadflight": null }, { "id": 733, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/landings/733/?format=api", "attempt": true, "success": true, "description": "The Soyuz spacecraft safely landed in Kazakhstan.", "downrange_distance": null, "landing_location": { "id": 19, "name": "Kazakhstan", "active": true, "abbrev": "KAZ", "description": "Deserts of Kazakhstan in Central Asia", "location": null, "longitude": null, "latitude": null, "image": { "id": 1056, "name": "Soyuz MS landing (MS-04)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/soyuz2520ms-122520landing_image_20190929074125.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305191514.jpeg", "credit": "NASA/Bill Ingalls", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": false, "variants": [] }, "successful_landings": 194, "attempted_landings": 201, "failed_landings": 7, "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1, "name": "Earth", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Planet" }, "diameter": 12742000.0, "mass": 5.972168e+24, "gravity": 9.80655, "length_of_day": "1 00:00:00", "atmosphere": true, "image": { "id": 2040, "name": "Earth (Apollo 17)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_20240402194304.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_thumbnail_20240402194305.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "description": "Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth" } }, "type": { "id": 4, "name": "Parachute Landing", "abbrev": "PCL", "description": "Unpowered landing using parachute(s)." }, "response_mode": "normal", "firststage": null, "spacecraftflight": { "id": 332, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft_flights/332/?format=api", "destination": "Salyut 5", "mission_end": "1977-02-25T09:38:00Z", "spacecraft": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 183, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft/183/?format=api", "name": "Soyuz 24", "serial_number": "Soyuz 7K-T/A9 11F615A9 #66", "is_placeholder": false, "image": { "id": 1927, "name": "[AUTO] Soyuz - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/soyuz_image_20201015191152.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194147.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P17DT17H26M10S", "time_docked": "P16DT12H43M", "flights_count": 1, "mission_ends_count": 1, "status": { "id": 4, "name": "Single Use" }, "description": "Soyuz 24 was a Soyuz spacecraft which launched on 7 February 1977 16:11 UTC. It transported two cosmonauts on the third flight to Salyut 5. The crew was Viktor Gorbatko and Yuri Glazkov.", "spacecraft_config": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft_configurations/1/?format=api", "name": "Soyuz", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Capsule" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 63, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/63/?format=api", "name": "Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)", "abbrev": "RFSA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "family": [ { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1, "name": "Soyuz", "description": "Soyuz is a series of spacecraft which has been in service since the 1960s, having made more than 140 flights. It was designed for the Soviet space program by the Korolev Design Bureau (now Energia).", "manufacturer": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 1000, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/1000/?format=api", "name": "Energia", "abbrev": "OKB-1", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "parent": null, "maiden_flight": "1966-11-28" } ], "in_use": false, "image": { "id": 1927, "name": "[AUTO] Soyuz - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/soyuz_image_20201015191152.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194147.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] } }, "fastest_turnaround": null }, "launch": { "id": "17f1cde2-cb45-443a-9fc5-93aedde48b37", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launches/17f1cde2-cb45-443a-9fc5-93aedde48b37/?format=api", "name": "Soyuz-U | Soyuz 24", "response_mode": "normal", "slug": "soyuz-u-soyuz-24", "launch_designator": "1977-008", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "Launch Successful", "abbrev": "Success", "description": "The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s)." }, "last_updated": "2024-06-15T13:17:19Z", "net": "1977-02-07T16:11:50Z", "net_precision": { "id": 0, "name": "Second", "abbrev": "SEC", "description": "The T-0 is accurate to the second." }, "window_end": "1977-02-07T16:11:50Z", "window_start": "1977-02-07T16:11:50Z", "image": { "id": 1835, "name": "[AUTO] Soyuz U - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/soyuz2520u_image_20190222031023.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305193909.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "infographic": null, "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 66, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/66/?format=api", "name": "Soviet Space Program", "abbrev": "CCCP", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "rocket": { "id": 259, "configuration": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 37, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launcher_configurations/37/?format=api", "name": "Soyuz U", "families": [ { "response_mode": "list", "id": 147, "name": "Soyuz" } ], "full_name": "Soyuz U", "variant": "" } }, "mission": { "id": 300, "name": "Soyuz 24", "type": "Human Exploration", "description": "Soyuz 24 was the last crewed flight to the Salyut 5 military space station. The mission began on February 7, 1977, 16:11 UTC, launching Commander Viktor Gorbatko and Flight Engineer Yuri Glazkov into orbit. They docked with the station the next day, where they partially replaced station's atmosphere, as it was presumed that toxic fumes contributed to deteriorated health of the Soyuz 21 crew. Gorbatko and Glazkov fininshed the research started by the previous expedition. This was the final flight to a military Salyut station and the final all-military crew to be launched by Soviets.\nSoyuz 24 returned to Earth with a safe landing on February 25, 1977, 09:38 UTC.", "image": null, "orbit": { "id": 8, "name": "Low Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "LEO", "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 1, "name": "Earth" } }, "agencies": [], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 32, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/pads/32/?format=api", "active": true, "agencies": [], "name": "1/5", "image": null, "description": null, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=45.92,63.342", "latitude": 45.92, "longitude": 63.342, "country": { "id": 44, "name": "Kazakhstan", "alpha_2_code": "KZ", "alpha_3_code": "KAZ", "nationality_name": "Kazakh", "nationality_name_composed": "Kazakhstani" }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_32_20200803143513.jpg", "total_launch_count": 487, "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 487, "fastest_turnaround": "PT23H32M33S", "location": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 15, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/locations/15/?format=api", "name": "Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan", "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 1, "name": "Earth", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Planet" }, "diameter": 12742000.0, "mass": 5.972168e+24, "gravity": 9.80655, "length_of_day": "1 00:00:00", "atmosphere": true, "image": { "id": 2040, "name": "Earth (Apollo 17)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_20240402194304.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_thumbnail_20240402194305.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "description": "Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth", "total_attempted_launches": 7152, "successful_launches": 6609, "failed_launches": 543, "total_attempted_landings": 1106, "successful_landings": 1063, "failed_landings": 43 }, "active": true, "country": { "id": 44, "name": "Kazakhstan", "alpha_2_code": "KZ", "alpha_3_code": "KAZ", "nationality_name": "Kazakh", "nationality_name_composed": "Kazakhstani" }, "description": "The Baikonur Cosmodrome is a spaceport operated by Russia within Kazakhstan. Located in the Kazakh city of Baikonur, it is the largest operational space launch facility in terms of area. All Russian crewed spaceflights are launched from Baikonur.", "image": { "id": 2198, "name": "Soyuz launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/soyuz_launch_pa_image_20240918150530.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/soyuz_launch_pa_image_thumbnail_20240918150530.jpeg", "credit": "NASA/Bill Ingalls", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_15_20200803142517.jpg", "longitude": 63.305, "latitude": 45.965, "timezone_name": "Asia/Qyzylorda", "total_launch_count": 1555, "total_landing_count": 0 } }, "webcast_live": false, "program": [ { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 23, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/programs/23/?format=api", "name": "Salyut", "image": { "id": 1900, "name": "[AUTO] Salyut - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/salyut_program_20230506090532.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194103.png", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyut_programme", "description": "The Salyut programme was the first space station programme, undertaken by the Soviet Union. It involved a series of four crewed scientific research space stations and two crewed military reconnaissance space stations over a period of 15 years, from 1971 to 1986.", "agencies": [ { "response_mode": "list", "id": 66, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/66/?format=api", "name": "Soviet Space Program", "abbrev": "CCCP", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } } ], "start_date": "1971-04-19T01:40:00Z", "end_date": "1986-07-16T12:34:05Z", "mission_patches": [], "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Human Spaceflight" } }, { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 8, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/programs/8/?format=api", "name": "Soyuz", "image": { "id": 1892, "name": "[AUTO] Soyuz - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/soyuz_program_20201129185543.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194048.png", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_programme", "description": "The Soyuz programme is a human spaceflight programme initiated by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. The Soyuz spacecraft was originally part of a Moon landing project intended to put a Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon. It was the third Soviet human spaceflight programme after the Vostok and Voskhod programmes.", "agencies": [ { "response_mode": "list", "id": 63, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/63/?format=api", "name": "Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)", "abbrev": "RFSA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, { "response_mode": "list", "id": 66, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/66/?format=api", "name": "Soviet Space Program", "abbrev": "CCCP", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } } ], "start_date": "1966-11-28T11:02:00Z", "end_date": null, "mission_patches": [], "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Human Spaceflight" } } ], "orbital_launch_attempt_count": 1923, "location_launch_attempt_count": 480, "pad_launch_attempt_count": 159, "agency_launch_attempt_count": 1086, "orbital_launch_attempt_count_year": 8, "location_launch_attempt_count_year": 3, "pad_launch_attempt_count_year": 1, "agency_launch_attempt_count_year": 6 }, "duration": "P17DT17H26M10S", "turn_around_time": null, "response_mode": "normal" }, "payloadflight": null } ] }
